- Title
- Post-pandemic social work and the death of neoliberalism
- Creator
- Ottmann, Goetz
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/194692
- Identifier
- vital:18399
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003416210-4
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781000921540 (ISBN); 9781032223445 (ISBN)
- Abstract
- The COVID-19 pandemic in conjunction with ecological, financial and political crises foregrounds the inadequacies and failures of neoliberal modes of governance that have become the bedrock of polities around the globe. The pandemic highlighted that most governments were not able to protect the health and wellbeing of their citizens bringing into full public view an astonishing discrepancy between governmental claims and experienced events. As a result, political leaders were scrambling to re-define the role of the state as guarantor of social welfare, to re-create a sense of humanitarian solidarity, and to re-invent the commons amidst threadbare, marketised health and social care. Ultimately, a sizeable segment of vulnerable ‘consumers’ was left without a protective safety net. And while communities rallied, providing much-needed social support to vulnerable citizens, national governments appeared to be ‘missing in action’. This chapter traces the tension between the neoliberal administration of health and welfare and the social imaginary of safety that underpins public opinion outlining socio-political currents that are transforming neoliberalism. The chapter argues that this tension translates into a new challenge for social work to ‘re-cognise’ that the neoliberal dogma, albeit incrementally changing, still permeates current human services approaches and our own thinking and to become aware of new possibilities. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Goetz Ottmann and Carolyn Noble; individual chapters, the contributors.
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Relation
- Post-Pandemic Welfare and Social Work: Re-imagining the New Normal Chapter 4 p. 39-50
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Goetz Ottmann and Carolyn Noble; individual chapters, the contributors
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